[Faith-talk] FW: [URCTCPrayerGroup2] Think on these things by Kenneth Copeland

[Eric Calhoun]

Original Message: 
From: Donna Kiser <kiserdonna5 at gmail.com>
To: URCTCPrayerGroup2 at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [URCTCPrayerGroup2] Think on these things by Kenneth Copeland
Date: 
Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:53:09 -0400

 Think on These ThingsKenneth Copeland

Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever
things
are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely,
whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there
be any praise, think on these things.

- Philippians 4:8

When you begin to dwell on the Word of God, the first thing you discover
is
that the Word goes absolutely contrary to the way you're accustomed to
thinking. But the only way for the Word to abide in you is to choose it
over
your old, worldly thoughts.

Second Corinthians 10:4-6 calls those old thought patterns "strongholds"
and
lets us know we have to overthrow them with the Word of God.

How do you take your old thoughts captive and bring them into obedience
to
Jesus? By replacing them with His thoughts and His Words.

Once you understand that, you can see how we can have untroubled
hearts...and think on the things of Philippians 4:8.

Think about this: God isn't worried, is He? He isn't afraid He'll run out
of
money. He's not filled with anxiety about your problems. No! He has the
supply. He has more than enough power to get you through every
circumstance
in victory. So when you think His thoughts, you won't be afraid either.
You'll be full of the peace of God Himself.

If you're going to abide in the peace of God, if His Word is going to
abide
in you, you have to close the door to all other kinds of thought. You
have
to cast down every thought that disagrees with the Word and choose to
think
God's thoughts instead. You literally have to select what your mind
thinks.

You have to be like my daughter Kellie was years ago when she was a
little
girl. One day I took her by the hand, led her into her room, opened the
door
of her closet (which was piled full of junk) and said, "Kellie Dee
Copeland,
this closet of yours is a mess! Now you're going to get in there and
clean
it up."

She just looked up at me and said, "That's not my thought."

She resisted that thought. She wouldn't accept it. I couldn't figure out
how
to get that thought into her either. Even when she went ahead and cleaned
up
the closet, it wasn't her thought. The only reason she did it was because
her mother and dad made her.

That's the way we need to treat the devil. When he comes around with a
thought of anxiety or disaster, we just need to tell him, "That's not my
thought. I'm not touching that with my thought life." Then we need to
immediately replace that thought with a thought from the Word of God. We
need to think on things that are just, pure, lovely, of good report, of
virtue and praise.

*Scripture Reading:* Psalm 119:40-64

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-- 
*Every word of God is pure; He is a Shield to those who put their trust
in
Him. Proverbs 30:5*